| Colin Thain | |
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| Born | (1959-01-20) 20 January 1959 (age 66) Bedlington, Northumberland, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Known for | work on the HM Treasury, The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Spending (with Maurice Wright) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science, Political economy |
| Institutions | University of Exeter, University of Ulster, University of Manchester |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Wright and Andrew Gamble |
Colin Thain (born 20 January 1959) is professor of political science and a former head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Born in Bedlington, Northumberland, Thain received a BA in economics (1981) and Ph.D. in government (1985) from the University of Manchester. He was previously based at the University of Ulster. Thain is currently also a visiting fellow at All Souls College and senior visiting research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. In 1988, while he was a lecturer at the University of Exeter, Thain was awarded one of the first three Lloyd's Tercentenary Foundation Fellowships.
His research interests lie in the area of economic policy making, with a particular focus on HM Treasury and the Bank of England. His publications include an influential work in the study of the Treasury, The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Spending (co-authored with Maurice Wright, Clarendon Press, 1995), and he is currently working on a project on the evolution of the Treasury under the New Labour government, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
References
- ^ "Colin Thain". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- "Colin Thain's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- "First Lloyd's Tercentenary Foundation Fellowships Awarded". PR Newswire Europe. 10 June 1988.
- Cairncross, Alec (24 May 1996). "The spend, spend, spend enigma". The Times Higher Education Supplement. p. 22. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- "The Treasury under New Labour: The evolution of a core British institution, 1997–2006". Economic and Social Research Council. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
External links
- University of Birmingham homepage
- Personal homepage
- The Treasury under New Labour since 1997: The evolution of a British Institution
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